ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,765, issued on June 16, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Updating network functions in a telecommunications network utilizing atomic configuration snapshots" was invented by Ronald Mark Parker (Manchester, Mass.), Mark Gordon Libby (Groton, Mass.), Michael Anthony Brown (McKinney, Texas), Haibo Qian (Frisco, Texas), Rahul Bose (Westford, Mass.) and Alex Xiaoguang Xia (Lexington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a network function configuration system that efficiently, accurately, and flexibly manages network function configurations in a cloud computing system ...